I’ve been traveling with Secretary Rumsfeld and other journalists the last couple of days. We stopped over last night in Oman. Here are a few useless facts about Oman: 1) It is hot, very, very hot. When we got off the plane I quite literally thought that somehow my pants had caught on fire. During the day it’s 110 and so humid it takes your breath away. As an embassy official said dryly, “It’s not a dry heat.” 2) There are few left turns in this country. When you want to make a left, you usually have to go into a round-about, I’m told. 3) It sometimes rains here, in the South, in monsoon season. So folks from the rest of the Gulf come here on vacation to escape the oppressive heat in their own countries.